Alabama NewsCenter — Players mourn loss of Alabama pool hall where everybody knew your name

By Meg McKinney
Alabama NewsCenter

Poppa G’s Billiards in Pelham was a place where everybody knew your name, what you ordered last week and which pool table your team was playing on.

From the outside, Poppa G’s appeared to be an ordinary business in a commercial strip center. But it was so much more for the pool players who played there weekly, year-round, for years and even decades.

Poppa G’s is now a memory. Everything went up in flames July 18. The building and its contents appear to be a total loss.

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